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Women could vote in New Zealand starting in 1893, the first country to grant suffrage. A global first for equality.

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New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant women the right to vote in 1893, influencing suffrage movements elsewhere. Many countries followed gradually over the next decades, often after sustained activism.

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